Dear friends,
I have a very nice and very full Soldbuch of an Luftwaffe-Unteroffizier of the Flak Branch. His last unit of 1945 is mentioned as
"7./II./Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann" (that´s what is written in the Soldbuch page 17).
7th Company 2nd Bataillon Regiment 23 is clear, but I cand find a Regiment 23 Schluchtmann.
I think it is Oberst Ernst Schluchtmann, Kdr. of the 20. Flak-Division, but he never has been the Kdr. of a Flak-Regiment in 1945.
So the question to the experts, what unit was the "Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann" and where did it fought?
Regards
Frank
What unit: Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann? Flak unit?
Re: What unit: Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann? Flak unit?
II./Flak-Rgt. 23 (gem. mot.)
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1 Jan 44: Luniniec/E Poland under Flak-Rgt. 125/23. Flak-Div.
Feb 44: transferred from Central Russia, where it had been since October 1941, to North Russia and assigned to Flak-Rgt. 182/2. Flak-Div. in the Luga-Pskov area on the Leningrad front. Subordination unchanged through Jul 44. Supported AOK 18 units during the retreat from the Leningrad perimeter to defensive positions around Pskov, at the south end of Lake Peipus and southeastern Estonia through July.
Aug 44: briefly under Flak-Rgt. 41/6. Flak-Div.
Sep – Nov 44: again under 2. Flak-Div., took part in the fighting retreat from Estonia through Latvia to the Kurland (Courland) region in northwestern Latvia.
Dec 44 – May 45: it remained trapped in the Kurland pocket until the end of the war.
FpNs: Stab (L 18359), 6. (L 16682), 7. (L 18294), 8. (L 05302), 9. (L 15184), 10. (L 13880), Kolonne (L 07104).
Kommandeur:
Obstlt. Kurt Wagner (1 Oct 35 - 31 Mar 37)
Obstlt. Johannes Kördel (10 Sep 39 - 23 Apr 41)
Maj. Fritz Winkler (c.1 May 41 - 30 Nov 42)
Obstlt. Rudolf Schwarze (1 Dec 42 - 9 May 43)
Maj. Wilhelm Jürgens (16 May 43 - 14 Feb 44) WIA
There is no record of SCHLUCHTMANN, Ernst, (DOB: 11.08.05 in Paderborn/Westph.), (i.G.), having anything to do with this Regiment.
L.
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1 Jan 44: Luniniec/E Poland under Flak-Rgt. 125/23. Flak-Div.
Feb 44: transferred from Central Russia, where it had been since October 1941, to North Russia and assigned to Flak-Rgt. 182/2. Flak-Div. in the Luga-Pskov area on the Leningrad front. Subordination unchanged through Jul 44. Supported AOK 18 units during the retreat from the Leningrad perimeter to defensive positions around Pskov, at the south end of Lake Peipus and southeastern Estonia through July.
Aug 44: briefly under Flak-Rgt. 41/6. Flak-Div.
Sep – Nov 44: again under 2. Flak-Div., took part in the fighting retreat from Estonia through Latvia to the Kurland (Courland) region in northwestern Latvia.
Dec 44 – May 45: it remained trapped in the Kurland pocket until the end of the war.
FpNs: Stab (L 18359), 6. (L 16682), 7. (L 18294), 8. (L 05302), 9. (L 15184), 10. (L 13880), Kolonne (L 07104).
Kommandeur:
Obstlt. Kurt Wagner (1 Oct 35 - 31 Mar 37)
Obstlt. Johannes Kördel (10 Sep 39 - 23 Apr 41)
Maj. Fritz Winkler (c.1 May 41 - 30 Nov 42)
Obstlt. Rudolf Schwarze (1 Dec 42 - 9 May 43)
Maj. Wilhelm Jürgens (16 May 43 - 14 Feb 44) WIA
There is no record of SCHLUCHTMANN, Ernst, (DOB: 11.08.05 in Paderborn/Westph.), (i.G.), having anything to do with this Regiment.
L.
Re: What unit: Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann? Flak unit?
Definitely not Flieger-Rgt. 23, Luftnachrichten-Rgt. 23 or Fallschirmjger-Rgt. 23 - I checked all of those.
L.
L.
Re: What unit: Rgt. 23 Schluchtmann? Flak unit?
He was a Flak man and Schluchtmann was leader of a Flak Korps. Don´t think of Fallschirmjäger or LN-Regt.